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Persian Weblogger Arrested

Authored by Michael Pate on April 20th, 2003 at 3:04 PM

Hossein Derakhshan is reporting that Sina Motallebi, a blogger and journalist in Iran, has been arrested in Iran for “threatening the national security by giving interviews to Persian language radios outside Iran, wrtiting articles both in newspapers and his weblog.” Hossein hopes that publicity about the case may help to speed his release.

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